The Treasury Department has blocked nearly $100 million in taxpayer money from going to dead people since implementing a government-wide payment verification process last year, The Post has learned. The department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service discovered the money set to go to ghosts after a review of an eye-popping 885 million payments worth a total of nearly $2.

An attempt to save a struggling swimmer in an Ohio river left five people dead over the weekend, authorities said.

Guyana’s prime minister says a ferry that capsized over the weekend had as many as 179 people aboard, far more than listed on its manifest